The Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose - A Free Class For The Same Damn Price

I ran across the new slate of classes at the the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.

They are the same old classes and they are taught by the same old people at the same old location.  Of course, they are taught the same old way.  They do have a new twist on it though:  your first session of the six-session class series is FREE.

Yep, FREE.

You also get a discount if you pay online with PayPal!

But let's do the math and see what a great deal this is and let's make some intuitive and insightful deductions on why a thriving and prosperous organization such as the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose needs to give a discount and a "FREE" class on their well-attended and popular classes on meditation and psychic energy methods.


Here's the math:

The San Jose Academy for Psychic Studies offers 6 sessions of their six-week classes for the special online price of $135 (that's a 10% discount from the regular price of $150).  You get your first class session free also.  I don't know if you have to pay the full price of $150 if you sign up in person.  Who knows if you still get a FREE class either. 

Taking into account that you don't have to "pay" for the first class that price is: $27 per session.


The regular price for the same classes at the Berkeley Academy for Psychic Studies will set you back $135 for 6 class sessions - which includes a discount for using PayPal (presumably you will pay the full price of $150 if you pay in person).  They are not offering a "free" class session at this time.

If you divide the six class sessions by the total price, you pay $22.50 per session.


Uh.... what?


The bottom line is: even with your "FREE" class, the price you will pay at the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose (if you sign up online) is the same as the regular internet price at the Berkeley facility.  Sorry to point out the obvious but that kind of information is hard for the average Joe to find on the web site.

The Academy for Psychic Studies web site is fractured beyond belief and is listed under a myriad of web addresses and it's really hard to find and correlate any meaningful information.  It took me having to dig out my memory of the crazy web site and follow link after link and URL after URL to dig that information out of the ether.

Who knows if the fractured organization of the web site is any more than dumb, disorganized design.  I would believe that over a calculated, deliberate attempt to hide information.

Or maybe not.

With the many, many URL's pointing to pages in the Academy for Psychic Studies and Spiritual Rights Foundation web site, you have to wonder why the beneficial and helpful information there has to be compartmentalized underneath different names, different messages, different appearances.

The thought of it just drives me batty.  It's probably a result of the Academy for Psychic Studies bats getting loose in the belfry.  I just can't believe they are so calculating that they could concoct an evil scheme to deceive the world.  But I have been surprised before and those bats do appear to be hiding something.  I wonder what that might be?


But what about the offering of a "FREE" class session?   How about the 10% discount if you register online and pay in advance with PayPal?

We all hear how powerful, how life-changing, how popular are the classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.  We hear of those who attend experience healing, happiness and a renewed outlook on life.  The classes are truly addressing the needs of a long-suffering world.

If that is the case, why offer a discount?  If the classes are indeed so powerful, so life-affirming that students are forming a line around the block, why not raise the price to the level other spiritual gurus and teachers charge?

As Adam Smith said: supply and demand.

How many classes are supplied by the Academy for Psychic Studies and how strong is the demand really?

I'd demand that my FREE class be actually FREE.  I would demand that the total price with my FREE class be LESS than the total price of paying for all six sessions.  After all, the customer is always right...

I wonder if they would indeed supply that FREE class if confronted with their error.  Anyone care to take a guess?

When we bought my wife's new car, she went to a dealership my family used for decades.  So have my neighbors.  My neighbors and my father knew the owner personally and knew he ran an upright operation.  They gave my wife a great deal on her car and treated her like a valued customer and good neighbor without me having to drop a name.  Now that is a dealer we will go back to again.

Before we went to that dealer, she visited some others.  Even a used car lot, just for laughs.  Of course, the used car lot was filled with the usual slicksters in ugly clothes that give that business a bad name.  There were no great deals at that lot.  Just high-pressure tactics, crappy pricing with the usual "What will it take to get you to drive this car today?" - well how about a CARFAX, a background report on the used car lot from DMV as well as a DMV report on the salesman?  No?  Bye!


I will say the used car dealer offered a FREE car wash, a tank of gas and a discount on an overpriced warranty that would probably be needed over and over again.  And that free cup of horrible coffee is sticking with me to this day.  I would hate to think what would happen if we fell for their nutty pricing and not-so-free offers.

What do you think?  Would you pay the same damn price for the same damn thing?  Would you fall for a "FREE" offer that hides the same old price for the same old thing?

Look up the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.  See for yourself.  If it's a good deal, take them up on it.  If you find out later it was not, well, I have some good coffee from Peet's.  Let me pour you a cup.  I'll throw in a couple of Krispy Kremes as well.